Morphogenesis of Symbolic Forms: Meaning in Music, Art, Religion, and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morphogenesis of Symbolic Forms: Meaning in Music, Art, Religion, and Language write by Wolfgang Wildgen. This book was released on 2023-03-01. Morphogenesis of Symbolic Forms: Meaning in Music, Art, Religion, and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the present book, the starting line is defined by a morphogenetic perspective on human communication and culture. The focus is on visual communication, music, religion (myth), and language, i.e., on the “symbolic forms” at the heart of human cultures (Ernst Cassirer). The term “morphogenesis” has more precisely the meaning given by René Thom (1923-2002) in his book “Morphogenesis and Structural Stability” (1972) and the notions of “self-organization” and cooperation of subsystems in the “Synergetics” of Hermann Haken (1927- ). The naturalization of communication and cultural phenomena is the favored strategy, but the major results of the involved disciplines (art history, music theory, religious science, and linguistics) are respected. Visual art from the Paleolithic to modernity stands for visual communication. The present book focuses on studies of classical painting and sculpture (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, William Turner, and Henry Moore) and modern art (e.g., Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys). Musical morphogenesis embraces classical music (from J. S. Bach to Arnold Schönberg) and political songwriting (Bob Dylan, Leonhard Cohen). The myths of pre-literary societies show the effects of self-organization in the re-assembly (bricolage) of traditions. Classical polytheistic and monotheistic religions demonstrate the unfolding of basic germs (religious attractors) and their reduction in periods of crisis, the self-organization of complex religious networks, and rationalized macro-structures (in theologies). Significant tendencies are analyzed in the case of Buddhism and Christianism. Eventually, a holistic view of symbolic communication and human culture emerges based on state-of-the-art in evolutionary biology, cognitive science, linguistics, and semiotics (philosophy of symbolic forms).
Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics
Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics write by Alessandro Sarti. This book was released on . Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Relevance of René Thom
The Relevance of René Thom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Relevance of René Thom write by Isabel Marcos. This book was released on . The Relevance of René Thom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Diagrams and Gestures
Diagrams and Gestures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diagrams and Gestures write by Francesco La Mantia. This book was released on 2023-09-16. Diagrams and Gestures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing a line, and then another, and another. Go back from the lines to the movements they capture and see gestures in them: not spatial displacements, but modes of knowledge that pass through the exercise of the body. Discovering something new in a gesture: the line that contracts into a point or the point that expands into a zone, perhaps sinking into a hole. Thus experiencing a diagram: a becoming other inscribed in the novelty of the gesture and in the changes of the forms it shapes. This and much more is discussed in the essays gathered in Diagrams and Gestures. Resulting from trans-disciplinary work between mathematicians, philosophers, linguists and semioticians, the volume delivers an up-to-date account of the most valuable research on the connections between gesture and diagram. As one of the most important themes in contemporary thought, the study of these connections poses a challenge for the future: to elaborate a theory that is equal to new and stimulating research methodologies. We call this theory a philosophy of diagrammatic gestures.
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms write by Ernst Cassirer. This book was released on 1955-01-01. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science--the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. "These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirer's other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction. It is rather as if 'The Golden Bough' had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms."--F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature
